Jeff Cuthbert
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| Gwent Police and Crime Commissioner | |
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Assumed office 5 May 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Ian Johnston |
| Member of the Welsh National Assembly for Caerphilly | |
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In office 1 May 2003 – 6 April 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Ron Davies |
| Succeeded by | Hefin David |
| Majority | 4,924 (19.3%) |
| Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty | |
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In office 26 June 2013 – 6 April 2016 |
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| First Minister | Carwyn Jones |
| Deputy | Vaughan Gething |
| Preceded by | Huw Lewis |
| Succeeded by | Post re-organised |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
4 June 1948 Glasgow, Scotland |
| Political party | Welsh Labour |
| Alma mater | University College, Cardiff |
| Occupation | Trade Unionist |
| Portfolio | Deputy Minister for Skills |
| Website | Welsh Labour |
Jeffrey Hambley Cuthbert (born 4 June 1948) is a Welsh politician, who served as a Labour Party member of the National Assembly for Wales for Caerphilly from 2003 to 2016. He began his career in the mining industry and later worked for the Welsh Joint Education Committee (as it was then) as Head of the Asset to Industry Unit.
Cuthbert was born in Glasgow to a Welsh mother and Scottish father, but brought up in Cardiff, where he attended Whitchurch County Secondary Modern followed by studying mining engineering at University College, Cardiff. He joined the Labour Party in the mid-1960s. As a mining engineer he worked at Markham and Oakdale pits.
A member of the Militant group from the mid-60s to early-80s, Cuthbert later became Chair of Caerphilly Constituency Labour Party. He left the mining industry to develop qualifications for Modern Apprenticeships with WJEC, and became a Corporate Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. He was a governor of the Lewis School, Pengam, and served as principal of a part-time Adult Education Centre at Aberbargoed.
In the 2003 election to the National Assembly for Wales, Cuthbert was selected at the last minute to replace Ron Davies who had been involved in a second sex scandal and was forced to stand down; despite the party's negative tabloid publicity he increased the Labour majority in the Caerphilly constituency.
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